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Reaching Every Learner
Proven Strategies to Teach Students With Disabilities in Tiers 1–3
Author Cara Shores provides a three-tiered instructional framework that helps educators establish integral baselines of performance for students, offering strategies for assessment, intervention, and remediation to ensure student growth. This book guides educators with step-by-step tools and methods for differentiated instruction and lesson planning, addressing the diverse learning needs of all students.
Benefits
- Increase students’ learning progression through instruction, intervention, and remediation
- Explore research-proven models and methods of instruction that promote standards mastery for students with disabilities
- Better assess and collect data on students’ learning to measure progress
- Incorporate standards mastery into individualized education program goals
- Implement highly effective instruction in all settings to maximize learning for students with disabilities
TABLE OF CONTENTS
Chapter 1: Understanding the Tiered Instructional Framework
Chapter 2: Exploring Tier 1 Instruction Specially Designed for Students With Disabilities
Chapter 3: Discovering Why We Always Begin With Data
Chapter 4: Focusing on Instruction Through Essential Standards and Learning Progressions
Chapter 5: Choosing and Providing Appropriate Supports
Chapter 6: Co-Teaching for Greatest Impact
Chapter 7: Differentiating Instruction Through Tiered Assignments
Chapter 8: Looking at the Structure for Tiers 2 and 3 for Students With Disabilities
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Chapter 2: Exploring Tier 1 Instruction Specially Designed for Students With Disabilities
- Example of Completed Think-Aloud, Grade 1
- Example of Completed Think-Aloud, Grade 3
- Example of Completed Think-Aloud, Grade 11
- Outlining and Summarizing Strategies
Chapter 3: Discovering Why We Always Begin With Data
Chapter 4: Focusing on Instruction Through Essential Standards and
- Learning Progressions
- REAL Template for Identifying Essential Standards
- Example of Learning Progressions, Grade 7 ELA
- Example of Learning Progressions, Grade 11 U.S. History
- Blank Template for Learning Progressions
- Learning Target Mastery Chart
Chapter 6: Co-Teaching for Greatest Impact
Chapter 7: Differentiating Instruction Through Tiered Assignments
- Figure 7.3: Lesson Opening
- Figure 7.4: Teacher-Guided Work Session
- Figure 7.5: Learning Task B for “The Lottery” That Addresses All Learning Targets (for Students Who Need Limited Support)
- Figure 7.6: Tiered Lesson Plan
- Figure 7.7: Learning Task A for Students Who Need the Most Support
- Figure 7.8: Learning Task C for Students Who Need Extension
- Figure 7.9: Listening Guide
- Lesson Plan Outline for “The Lottery” by Shirley Jackson
- Blank Template for Tiered Assignment
SUGGESTED RESOURCES
Books
- Buffum, A., Mattos, M., & Malone, J. (2018). Taking action: A handbook for RTI at Work. Solution Tree Press.
- Conzemius, A. E., & O’Neill, J. (2014). The handbook for SMART school teams: Revitalizing best practices for collaboration (2nd ed.). Solution Tree Press.
- Dimich, N. (2014). Design in five: Essential phases to create engaging assessment practice. Solution Tree Press.
- Dimich, N. (2024). Design in five: Essential phases to create engaging assessment practice (2nd ed.). Solution Tree Press.
- DuFour, R., DuFour, R., Eaker, R., Many, T. W., & Mattos, M. (2016). Learning by doing: A handbook for Professional Learning Communities at Work (3rd ed.). Solution Tree Press.
- DuFour, R., DuFour, R., Eaker, R., Many, T. W., Mattos, M., & Muhammad, A. (2024). Learning by doing: A handbook for Professional Learning Communities at Work (4th ed.). Solution Tree Press.
- Gregory, G., Kaufeldt, M., & Mattos, M. (2016). Best practices at Tier 1: Daily differentiation for effective instruction, elementary. Solution Tree Press.
- Hansen, A. (2015). How to develop PLCs for singletons and small schools. Solution Tree Press.
- Jensen, E., & Nickelsen, L. (2014). Bringing the Common Core to life in K–8 classrooms: 30 strategies to build literacy skills. Solution Tree Press.
- Kanold, T. D., Kanold-McIntyre, J., Larson, M. R., Barnes, B., Schuhl, S., & Toncheff, M. (2018). Mathematics instruction and tasks in a PLC at Work. Solution Tree Press.
- Mattos, M., Buffum, A., Malone, J., Cruz, L. F., Dimich, N., & Schuhl, S. (2025). Taking action: A handbook for RTI at Work (2nd ed.). Solution Tree Press.
- Mattos, M., DuFour, R., DuFour, R., Eaker, R., & Many, T. W. (2016). Concise answers to frequently asked questions about Professional Learning Communities at Work. Solution Tree Press.
- Muhammad, A. (2015). Overcoming the achievement gap trap: Liberating mindsets to effect change. Solution Tree Press.
- Nickelsen, L., & Dickson, M. (2019). Teaching with the instructional cha-chas: 4 steps to make learning stick. Solution Tree Press.
- Rogers, P., Smith, W. R., Buffum, A., & Mattos, M. (2020). Best practices at Tier 3: Intensive interventions for remediation, elementary. Solution Tree Press.
Websites
Chapter 2
- High-Leverage Practices
- ChatGPT
- Visible Learning Metax™
- Magic School
- Specially Designed Instruction
- What Is AT (Assistive Technology)?
- Accommodation Central
- Council for Exceptional Children
Chapter 3
- My Favorite No (Midwinter, 2015)
- Hasbrouck and Tindal Oral Reading Fluency Data 2017
- An Update to Compiled ORF Norms (Technical Report No. 1702)
- DIBELS 8th Edition
- Acadience Learning
- aimswebPlus
- easyCBM Lite
- easyCBM Teacher Deluxe and District
- Intervention Central CBM Warehouse
Chapter 4
Chapter 6
Chapter 7
Chapter 8
